Flora of Victoria

Shrub from prostrate to 1.2(–1.5)m high. Leaves usually narrowly elliptic, sometimes narrowly lanceolate to narrowly obovate or elliptic, medium to dark green on upper surface, paler or rarely similar on lower surface, 4–29 mm long, 1–9 mm wide; margins incurved or rarely recurved. Inflorescence erect or pendulous, 7–many-flowered; involucral bracts usually ovate, rarely lanceolate, 7–17 mm long, 5–11 mm wide, green or partly reddish. Flowers usually not much longer than bracts, white, pink or very rarely yellow; floral tube 10–16 mm long. Flowers Jun.–Jan.

Brid, CVU, DunT, EGL, EGU, GipP, Glep, Gold, GGr, HFE, HNF, HSF, LoM, MonT, NIS, OtP, OtR, SnM, Strz, VAlp, VRiv, VVP, WaP, WPro, Wim. Also SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. (including Bass Strait islands). A variable subspecies occupying a wide range of habitats throughout most of Victoria.

Very rarely, more than 4 involucral bracts subtend the flowers in this subspecies (Rye 1990).

Source: Entwisle, T.J. (1996). Thymelaeaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J. (eds), Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

Updated by: Val Stajsic, 2018-10-05

life Life

kingdom Plantae

phylum Tracheophyta

class Magnoliopsida

superorder Rosanae

order Malvales

family Thymelaeaceae

genus Pimelea

species Pimelea linifolia Sm.

Higher taxa

subspecies Pimelea linifolia subsp. linifolia

Victoria

**Source:** AVH (2014). *Australia's Virtual Herbarium*, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, <http://avh.chah.org.au>. Find Pimelea linifolia subsp. linifolia in AVH ; *Victorian Biodiversity Atlas*, © The State of Victoria, Department of Environment and Primary Industries (published Dec. 2014) Find Pimelea linifolia subsp. linifolia in Victorian Biodiversity Atlas

Bioregion	Occurrence status	Establishment means
Lowan Mallee	present	native
Wimmera	present	native
Glenelg Plain	present	native
Bridgewater	present	native
Victorian Volcanic Plain	present	native
Victorian Riverina	present	native
Gippsland Plain	present	native
Otway Plain	present	native
Warrnambool Plain	present	native
Goldfields	present	native
Central Victorian Uplands	present	native
Greater Grampians	present	native
Dundas Tablelands	present	native
Northern Inland Slopes	present	native
East Gippsland Lowlands	present	native
East Gippsland Uplands	present	native
Wilsons Promontory	present	native
Highlands-Southern Fall	present	native
Highlands-Northern Fall	present	native
Otway Ranges	present	native
Strzelecki Ranges	present	native
Monaro Tablelands	present	native
Highlands-Far East	present	native
Victorian Alps	present	native
Snowy Mountains	present	native

Bioregions of Victoria

State distribution

State
South Australia
Queensland
New South Wales
Australian Capital Territory
Victoria
Tasmania

Pimelea linifolia subsp. linifolia

Slender Rice-flower

Victoria

State distribution